(published on Nukes of Hazard)
China remains hesitant to accept the U.S. bottom line on Iran. The two nations this week expressed goodwill and pledged general cooperation on nonproliferation, among other items, but failed to produce concrete plans of action and displayed subtle signs of divergence, as illustrated by today’s press briefing…
A D.C. think tank blog has responded to the op-ed posted below. My colleague and I have rebutted.
The Register Citizen yesterday featured an op-ed on the CTBT by myself and a colleague. Check it out.
Nuclear weapons tests are a toxic relic of a past characterized by arms races and fallout shelters. Except for outlaw nations like North Korea, the world today has quit the business of testing nuclear weapons…
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. -Arthur Schopenhauer
(published on Nukes of Hazard)
The love-hate triangle between the United States, North Korea, and South Korea continues.
Pyongyang has called its recent naval clash with the South the result of Seoul’s meddling in U.S.-North Korean reconciliation. Referring to the incident as “deliberate, planned provocation” by South Korea, one of Pyongyang’s state-run newspapers reported today, “It goes [...]
(published on Nukes of Hazard)
While the United States has chastised both Iran and North Korea for their human rights abuses, it has typically kept the issue separate from denuclearization talks. Yet some experts recommend integrating human rights into broader discussions, as opposed to pursuing single-variable negotiations, in order to create valuable synergies within the diplomatic [...]
(published on Nukes of Hazard)
As the Obama administration closes in on an agenda for bilateral talks with Pyongyang, it looks as though the United States and South Korea are back on the same page after a protracted spell of miscommunication…
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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